Acid relfux - have I solved it (for me)??Your opinions please!
This is probably totally off the wall! Any medical people out there, feel free to tell me this is complete nonsense! It's just a thought I have had!
Context, some sort of bug, involving swollen glands and production of mucus. Band feels tighter (always does when I am not well) but this time goes a bit further than usual. Two night of really bad sleep due to reflux. Not as bad as some get it and much of it just threatened rather than actual! But not nice!
Last night - same bug but no reflux! The difference - nights one and two i took a liquid decongestant. Night three, I didn't. My thought process....
Decongestants presumably somehow dry things up!
Dehydration (dryness!) makes me feel my band is tighter.
Is it possible that the decongestant made my band tighter and so caused the reflux???
What do you think? Loony idea or possible? Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Julie, I am still tighter than I like but the reflux seems to be minimal - although not totally gone.
I am sorry about yours! Any idea of the cause?
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Could be any of the above, really.
Its definitely an interesting theory which brings me to another potential point. I have been taking one to two tylenol PM at bedtime due to insomnia. Its major side effect is dehydration. My band has been pretty snug lately. I was wondering why but this could be part of it.
Sleeve Revision from Lap-band November 23, 2012
Starting Weight: 236 Lowest Weight w/ Lap-Band: 160 Current Weight: 190
Goal Weight: 150...40lbs to go
Sarah - yes, definitely a hmmm! I didn't know that dehydration was a side effect of any painkillers (we don't have tylenol here). But if that is so, my medicine was a sort of double whammy - it was a "flu" mix of decongestant and paracetamol.
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Sleeve Revision from Lap-band November 23, 2012
Starting Weight: 236 Lowest Weight w/ Lap-Band: 160 Current Weight: 190
Goal Weight: 150...40lbs to go
Sleeve Revision from Lap-band November 23, 2012
Starting Weight: 236 Lowest Weight w/ Lap-Band: 160 Current Weight: 190
Goal Weight: 150...40lbs to go